Someone I Can't Stop Writing About

I got notebooks full of your fingerprints

Even when your name ain't written in ink

Every page bends back toward your silhouette

Like my heart knows something my head won't think

You're the reason every melody lingers

The reason every midnight light stays on

I tell myself tonight I'll write about somebody else

Then somehow you're the last thing left when the song is done

You don't know it, but you're hidden in the details

In the spaces between every line

Like a secret I never meant to keep

But never found the courage to define

You're someone I can't stop writing about

Every road I take keeps turning around

Back to your smile, back to your eyes

Back to the way you make silence sound alive

And I swear I've tried to change the ending

Tried to let another story take your place somehow

But every word falls right through my hands

'Cause you're someone I can't stop writing about

You live in the glow of my dashboard lights

In the songs that play when the city sleeps

In the little daydreams I never admit

And all the promises my restless heart keeps

Some people fade into old photographs

Some become names you barely recall

But you keep showing up in every chapter

Like you were always meant to outlive them all

Maybe that's why every sentence finds you

Even when I swear it's not your turn

Maybe love is just a quiet gravity

Pulling me back no matter where I burn

You're someone I can't stop writing about

Every road I take keeps turning around

Back to your laugh, back to your touch

Back to the feeling that I never get enough

And I swear I've tried to close the cover

Tried to leave your memory somewhere in the background

But every page keeps speaking your name

'Cause you're someone I can't stop writing about

If you ever read these songs one day

Maybe you'll see yourself between the lines

Maybe you'll find all the things I never said

Hidden in the places where the words don't rhyme

Maybe you'll finally understand

Why every verse sounds a little like your heartbeat

Why every chorus reaches for your hand

Even when you're nowhere near me

You're someone I can't stop writing about

The brightest thing my lonely mind has found

The kind of beautiful that follows me home

The kind of beautiful that makes a man feel known

And if every song I write from here on out

Carries pieces of you I couldn't live without

Then maybe that's okay

Because some stories end

And some people leave

But you're someone I can't stop writing about.